2-Metaphysical Arguments by B. A. 0. Williams
Fellow of New College, Oxford

Harold Clarke (flute)
Hubert Dawkes (piano)
John Tainsh (tenor)
Geoffrey Bush (piano)
The Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)

Talk by A. Alvarez
The poem is read by Christopher Hassall before and after the talk

In this series critics are invited to take a single poem and examine it in as much detail as they see fit in order to bring out the full meaning.

'Modern poetry,' Mr. Alvarez says, 'has brought about a queer change in our tastes and reading habits. Nowadays we take the very obscure poetry of the seventeenth century quite in our stride. Romantic poetry, so much simpler in language and even in aims, we find more difficult.' In the ode Dejection, 'there is an informal intimacy, a coolness and candour which add up to the prime poetic virtue: creative objectivity.'

Illustrated talk by Newell Jenkins
Brunetti was an Italian contemporary of Haydn. One of his symphonies is to be conducted by the speaker at 8.30 p.m.

Jean Decroos (cello)
Carlo Bussotti (piano)
Piccola Aceademia Musicale
Conductor, Newell Jenkins

Translated oy Peter Watts from
Denis Marion 's comedy
' Le Juge de Malte' and with Arthur Lawrence
Donald Pickering. John Scott and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Peter Watts
(Sunday afternoon's recorded broadcast)

Three talks by Elena Gerhardt
3-Wolf
Illustrated by the speaker's records and by her singing in the studio. accompanied by Joan Coombes
The songs: Auf einer Wanderung, Das verlassene Magdlein. and Begegnung (Mörike): Das Standchen (Eichendorff ) : Wenn du zu den Blumen gehst. and In dem Schatten meiner locken (Spanisches Liederbuch)